The 8th World Conference on Women’s Studies (WCWS 2022)

Welcome to the 8th World Conference on Women’s Studies (WCWS 2022) which will take place from 12th – 14th May 2022 in Virtual Platform. We hope WCWS 2022 will unite diverse researches and case studies from all over the world, in parallel sessions while offering many networking and publishing opportunities.

 theme “Feminist Futures in Precarious Times: Decoloniality, Borderlands, and Transformative Visions.”

How can feminisms and Women’s Studies help scholars, policymakers, students, and practitioners navigate the complex precarity of the world today? Climate emergencies are producing climate refugees. Billionaires, horde the world’s resources while others starve from inequitable policies exacerbated by human exponential population explosion, loss of biodiversity in a 6th mass extinction, and global pandemic. These are precarious times indeed, especially for the most vulnerable among us, women and children, particularly those of marginalized, minoritized social statuses—caste, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, disability and the like. Even among those of us who are more privileged, mental health crises are rising through the daily stresses of inflation, poor air and water quality, difficulties accessing health care and other services, long working hours, battling stereotypes and micro-aggressions, combined with the existential awareness of overarching planetary problems. Most ironic, is that many of the ideas for how to transform current realities exist. The problem is in the intractability of human sociocultural, political, and economic systems, slow to move, stifled by those in power.